The Family Coralliophilidae in South Africa

This record preserves bibliographic metadata and a restricted institutional consultation copy of: Lussi, M. & Brink, D. (1999). The Family Coralliophilidae in South Africa. The Strandloper, 258: 1–6. Published by the Conchological Society of Southern Africa (CSSA), South Africa. The publication is indexed in MolluscaBase (SourceID 562865). The article provides a regional review of South African representatives of the family Coralliophilidae as understood under the taxonomic concepts current at the time of publication. It includes diagnostic notes, illustrations, distributional observations, and species accounts for numerous coralliophiline and associated muricoidean gastropods recorded from South African waters. Taxa covered Latiaxis mawae (Griffith & Pidgeon, 1834) Mipus brinkae Kosuge, 1992 Mipus crebrilamellosus (G. B. Sowerby III, 1913) Mipus isoceles (Barnard, 1959) Mipus matsumotoi Kosuge, 1985 Mipus miyukiae Kosuge, 1985 Mipus rosaceus (E. A. Smith, 1903) Mipus vicdani Kosuge, 1980 Babelomurex capensis (Tomlin, 1928) Babelomurex diadema (A. Adams, 1854) Babelomurex deburghiae (Reeve, 1857) Babelomurex gemmatus (Shikama, 1966) Babelomurex kawamurai helenae Azuma, 1973 Babelomurex lischkeanus (Dunker, 1882) Babelomurex nakamigawai (Kuroda, 1959) Babelomurex problematicus Kosuge, 1980 Babelomurex tosanus (Hirase, 1908) Babelomurex yumimarumai Kosuge, 1985 Hirtomurex filiaregis (Kurohara, 1959) Hirtomurex winckworthi (Fulton, 1930) Coralliophila clathrata (A. Adams, 1854) Coralliophila costularis (Lamarck, 1816) Coralliophila erosa (Röding, 1798) Coralliophila fragosa E. A. Smith, 1910 Coralliophila fritschi (E. von Martens, 1874) Coralliophila monodonta (Blainville, 1832) Coralliophila neritoidea (Gmelin, 1791) Coralliophila persica Melvill, 1897 Coralliophila pulchella (A. Adams, 1854) Coralliophila rubrococcinea Melvill & Standen, 1901 Coralliophila solutistoma Kuroda & Shikama, 1966 Coralliophila squamosissima (E. A. Smith, 1876) Rhizochilus antipathum Steenstrup, 1850 Rapa rapa (Linnaeus, 1758) Magilus lamarckii (Deshayes, 1863) Magilus striatus (Rüppell, 1835) The publication is additionally notable for documenting contemporary South African species concepts of Babelomurex, Mipus, Hirtomurex, Coralliophila, Rhizochilus, and Magilus during the late twentieth century. A “Stop Press” note records taxonomic identifications communicated by Shigeru Kosuge, providing historical context for the interpretation of South African coralliophiline material. This record is maintained by the Institute for Molluscan Systematics (IMS), Tenerife, Canary Islands, as part of its historical malacological literature archive. Copyright in the original publication remains with the original authors and/or publisher. The associated file is retained under restricted access and is made available exclusively for internal institutional consultation, taxonomic verification, nomenclatural research, collection management, and other non-commercial scientific purposes.